Syria seizes millions of captagon pills: Ministry
Syrian authorities on Saturday announced the seizure of around four million pills of the illegal drug captagon that had been readied for export through the port of Latakia.
The interior ministry said the pills had been 'professionally hidden inside 5,000 metal bars' and were seized from warehouses at the port.
'The pills were seized and the necessary legal procedures have begun,' the ministry's anti-narcotics department posted on Telegram.
Latakia is in the coastal heartland of deposed president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority.
Under his rule, captagon became Syria's largest export during the civil war that began in 2011.
Following Assad's ouster last December, the new authorities discovered millions of captagon pills in warehouses and on military bases.
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